Originally uploaded to Bilibili.tv
When Natlan released one major aspect of it was that people got sick from something called "Abyssal Corruption" which would eventually claim their lives. This was because the Abyss had polluted and weakened the Night Kingdom which is like an artificial underworld.
The lore of the game says that this only happens in Natlan because everywhere else they had a real underworld. So how do you write a plot about a malfunctioning underworld when you don't have one? Well you just add a layer. It's not the underworld that's broken but some tree that guards that underworld! Then people magically get sick because of that for some reason.
I really hope they connect it to Natlan at least. It feels like the story was so deliberately related that if Mavuika doesn't make a cameo appearance to talk to Zhongli about it it wouldn't really make sense.
So we'll see what happens in the next few days.
PS: O yeah and there was barely any voice acting because of that silly ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike so I covered for it haha. Lemme know how well I did lol. Also stand with the VAs. It's not their fault big business is so greedy over here.
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